You might think that potential buyers would be after the Staples Center or LA Live or the O2 Arena or the vast promotional reach of AEG Live. But no, obviously the suitors of AEG are after one thing and one thing only… the Los Angeles Kings. So in the time-honored tradition of TRH Off-Season Investigative Reporting… we take a look at the potential buyers of AEG and the LA Kings.

By harnessing the power of AEG Employees Dewayne Hankins and Pat Donahue, Zuckerberg would finally have a tangible shot at taking on Google and Twitter for the ultimate in social media superiority. By purchasing AEG, he could finally turn Facebook into the internets single destination for sarcastic updates and comments on people’s lives. Oh, whoops.. too late.

Mark Cuban is a perfect suitor for the Los Angeles Kings. He is obsessed to continue his unique collection of sports franchises that have struggled with mediocrity during their entire existence only to have won a single championship. Although… Cuban usually likes to purchase the sports franchise before they’ve won their championship… so his eyes might be more set on the purchase of the San Jose Sharks.

Sure, Mario Lemieux might have been the first ever NHL Player/Owner… but how much more interesting would it have been if Lemieux had played for the Rangers while owning the Penguins? Enter Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, two young millionaires who could purchase a team that has made the playoffs more times in the last 5 seasons than the team they just signed with for 13 years. Being an absentee owner of the LA Kings shouldn’t be an issue at all for Zach Parise considering he has great practice at not showing up for Kings games. The only problem I see with this deal is that the sale would be contingent on the 2012-2013 NHL Season actually being played so Parise and Suter would have the cash flow available for the purchase. Well, minus the 20 million dollars Parise and Suter will receive for not going to training camp.

Ed Snider is the Chairman of Comcast Spectacor which is a sports and entertainment company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers, the Wells Fargo Center, regional sports network Comcast SportsNet and Global Spectrum, an international facilities management company. Sounds like it would be a no-brainer for Snider to purchase AEG, right? Unfortunately, there is no way this sale will go through as Phil Anschutz is committed to keeping AEG’s presence in Los Angeles while Ed Snider wants to purchase the Kings and move them to Philadelphia so that he can finally deliver on his promise of spending money on a Stanley Cup for Flyers fans. Literally.